Escaping the Bonds of Earth: The Fifties and the Sixties

To commemorate the momentous 50^th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s pioneering journey into space on 12^th April 2011, a series of five books – to be published annually – will explore this half century, decade by decade, to discover how humanity’s knowledge of flying, working and living in space has changed. Each volume will focus not only upon the individual missions within ‘its’ decade, but also upon the key challenges facing human space exploration at specific points within those 50 years: fr...